OPEN SECRET

Open Secret is a touring offsite event curated by Dana Dawud, which showcases time-based works deploying new media and emerging technologies within online culture. It has so far visited Sweden, Hungary, Mexico, Canada, Iran, China, Austria and the United States. The events bring into question contemporary states of “post” - being, post-discipline, post-irony, post-net, post-shitpost. Open Secret is actively opposed to the passivity associated with the infinite scroll of the digital landscape. Drawing from Bataille’s concept that “the richest knowledge... is to honestly recognise that we know nothing and to talk about the unknown,” what happens when cinema touches the internet and the internet touches cinema?